"was not on the recording, having been in a recent near-fatal car accident. The week of May 20, 1967, the Yellow Balloon's version placed at #25 on Billboard's Hot 100 chart, while Jan & Dean's version placed at #111. This was due largely to the fact that many disc jockeys around the United States played only the Yellow Balloon version of the song. The B-side was the song played backwards, entitled ""Noollab Wolley"". However, several radio stations banned the song in fear that the song was about yellow hallucinogenic pills for a drug trip, just like the Donovan song ""Mellow"
"heir to the Brit-rock throne."" The song has since been regarded as the centerpiece track on the album. The song was featured in Richard Linklater's film ""Boyhood"". Citations Sources Yellow (Coldplay song) ""Yellow"" is a song by the British rock band Coldplay. The band wrote the song and co-produced it with British record producer Ken Nelson for their debut album, ""Parachutes"" (2000). The song was recorded in March 2000, and released in June that same year as the second single from ""Parachutes"", following Shiver, and the lead single in the United States. ""Yellow"" reached number four in the UK Singles"
"animated movie). It was included on ""Beatle Country"", an album by Boston bluegrass group The Charles River Valley Boys, who pronounced ""yellow"" as ""yeller"". The tune of the song has been used in Britain and America by those protesting government actions, with the lyrics changed to ""we all live in a Fascist regime"". Yellow Submarine (song) ""Yellow Submarine"" is a 1966 song by the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, with lead vocals by Ringo Starr. It was included on the ""Revolver"" (1966) album and issued as a single, coupled with ""Eleanor Rigby"". The single went to number"
"Yellow (Coldplay song) ""Yellow"" is a song by the British rock band Coldplay. The band wrote the song and co-produced it with British record producer Ken Nelson for their debut album, ""Parachutes"" (2000). The song was recorded in March 2000, and released in June that same year as the second single from ""Parachutes"", following Shiver, and the lead single in the United States. ""Yellow"" reached number four in the UK Singles Chart, giving Coldplay their first top-five hit in the United Kingdom. Helped by heavy rotation and usage in promotions, the song thrust the band into popularity. ""Yellow"" has since"
"Have You Never Been Mellow (song) ""Have You Never Been Mellow"" is a popular song written by John Farrar and recorded by Olivia Newton-John as the title track for her album of the same name. In March 1975, the single became Newton-John's second consecutive number-one hit on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and also topped the ""Billboard"" Hot Adult Contemporary Singles chart. ""Have You Never Been Mellow"" continued Newton-John's success as a crossover artist when it peaked at No. 3 on the Hot Country Singles chart. The record also received a Grammy nomination for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance. In"
"Yellow Submarine (song) ""Yellow Submarine"" is a 1966 song by the Beatles, written by Paul McCartney and John Lennon, with lead vocals by Ringo Starr. It was included on the ""Revolver"" (1966) album and issued as a single, coupled with ""Eleanor Rigby"". The single went to number one on every major British chart, remained at number one for four weeks, and charted for 13 weeks. It won an Ivor Novello Award ""for the highest certified sales of any single issued in the UK in 1966"". In the US, the song peaked at number two on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart"
"2016, Dutch DJ duo Showtek released a hardstyle song entitled ""Mellow"" that sampled this song's lyrics with Technoboy and Tuneboy. In 2017, Japanese singer-songwriter Rina Sumioka covered the song in her album ""Colors"". Juliana Hatfield covered the song on her album ""Juliana Hatfield Sings Olivia Newton-John"". Have You Never Been Mellow (song) ""Have You Never Been Mellow"" is a popular song written by John Farrar and recorded by Olivia Newton-John as the title track for her album of the same name. In March 1975, the single became Newton-John's second consecutive number-one hit on the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 and also"
"and ""Mellow Yellow""); Jeff Beck; Françoise Hardy; Cat Stevens; Rod Stewart; Shirley Bassey; Lulu; and numerous others. As well as recording sessions with Dusty Springfield, Jones also played bass for her ""Talk of the Town"" series of performances. His arranging and playing on Donovan's ""Sunshine Superman"" resulted in producer Mickie Most using his services as choice arranger for many of his own projects, with Tom Jones, Nico, Wayne Fontana, the Walker Brothers, and many others. In 1967, Most, as music supervisor, also tabbed Jones to arrange the music for Herman's Hermits' theatrical film Mrs. Brown, You've Got a Lovely Daughter"
"a story, sort of an ancient mariner, telling the young kids where he'd lived. It was pretty much my song as I recall ... I think John helped out. The lyrics got more and more obscure as it goes on, but the chorus, melody and verses are mine."" The song began as being about different coloured submarines, but evolved to include only a yellow one. Produced by George Martin and engineered by Geoff Emerick, ""Yellow Submarine"" was recorded in five takes on 26 May 1966, in Studio Two at Abbey Road Studios; special effects were added on 1 June. Martin"
"The Yellow Album The Yellow Album is ""The Simpsons"" second album of originally recorded songs, released as a follow-up to the 1990 album ""The Simpsons Sing the Blues"". Though it was released in 1998, it had been recorded years earlier, after the success of the first album. The title is a play on the name of The Beatles' highly popular self-titled 1968 album, commonly known as """"The White Album"""", with the skin color of the characters of ""The Simpsons"". In addition, the cover is a parody of The Beatles' 1967 album, ""Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band"". The parody was"
"Fine and Mellow ""Fine and Mellow"" is a jazz standard written by Billie Holiday, who first recorded it on April 20, 1939 on the Commodore label. It is a blues lamenting the bad treatment of a woman at the hands of ""my man"". The song was famously performed by Billie Holiday in 1957 in a television special, ""The Sound of Jazz"". The line-up included several jazz legends (the first six are listed in the order of their solos): It has been covered several times, sometimes with a change in lyrics or emphasis. For example, Lou Rawls switched the gender to"
"Dee and Jonah Jones. Yellow Days ""La mentira (Se te olvida)"", known in English as ""Yellow Days"", is a bolero written by Álvaro Carrillo around 1965. Alan Bernstein wrote the song's lyrics in English. It has become a Latin and jazz standard, having been featured as the theme song of films and ""telenovelas"", as well as being covered by artists such as Frank Sinatra, who sang it to an arrangement by Billy May. It appeared on the ""Francis A. & Edward K."" (Sinatra and Duke Ellington) album on Reprise. It has also been covered by Jerry Vale, the Sandpipers, Anita"
"Jim Lowe James Ellsworth Lowe (May 7, 1923 – December 12, 2016) was an American singer-songwriter, best known for his 1956 number-one hit song, ""Green Door"". He also served as a disc jockey and radio host and personality, and was considered an expert on the popular music of the 1940s and 1950s. Born in Springfield, Missouri, Lowe graduated from the University of Missouri in Columbia in 1948. He worked for several radio stations in Springfield, Indianapolis and Chicago, before moving to WCBS in New York City in 1956. A million-seller and gold record recipient, Lowe's 1956 hit ""The Green Door"""
"Black and Yellow ""Black and Yellow"" is a song by American rapper Wiz Khalifa from his third studio album, ""Rolling Papers"". It was released on September 14, 2010, as the lead single from the album. The song was written by Khalifa, along with Stargate, who produced it. It was released as a CD single in honor of Record Store Day. The song peaked at number one on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100, becoming Wiz Khalifa's first number-one single in the US; he would top the chart again in 2015 with ""See You Again"". The song is about Khalifa's car, a yellow"
"Yellow"", arranged by John Paul Jones and purportedly featuring Paul McCartney on backing vocals, but not in the chorus. In his autobiography Donovan explained ""electrical banana"" was a reference to a ""yellow-coloured vibrator"". The song became Donovan's signature tune in the US and reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100, No. 3 on the Cash Box chart, and earned a gold record award for sales of more than one million in the US. Through the first half of 1967, Donovan worked on a double-album studio project, which he produced. In January he gave a concert at the Royal Albert"
"Julia (Beatles song) ""Julia"" is a song by the Beatles, but performed as a solo work by John Lennon. The song was written by Lennon (though credited to Lennon–McCartney) regarding his mother Julia Lennon, who died in 1958 at age 44. The track is the final song on side two (disc one on CD) of the band's 1968 double album, ""The Beatles"" (also known as ""White Album"") and was the last song recorded for the album. It was also released as the ""B side"" of the Beatles single ""Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da"" in 1976. ""Julia"" was written by John Lennon (credited to"
"and released as a single both by Alpert and by Pete Fountain, also in 1965. Mae (Riz Ortolani song) ""Mae"" is a 1965 song written by Riz Ortolani for the MGM motion picture ""The Yellow Rolls-Royce""; the song is the theme for the section of the film in which ownership of the titular Rolls-Royce passes to a gangster and becomes the backdrop to a dangerous romance between the gangster's girlfriend Mae Jenkins (Shirley MacLaine) and a young Italian named Stefano (Alain Delon). The song with English lyrics, ""She's Just a Quiet Girl"", was recorded and released as a single by"
"in July 1968, during an interview with Tony Wilson. Donovan had written the song before going to India with The Beatles, and handed a demo tape to MacLeod to work from; he had originally wanted the song to be gentle and angelic but what Hurdy Gurdy played was more like heavy metal. It was during this time in India that Donovan taught John Lennon and Paul McCartney the fingerpicking styles he had learned from MacLeod; this resulted in songs like ""Julia"" and ""Blackbird"" being recorded for the so-called White Album (The Beatles). Donovan has also stated that George Harrison added"
"96 Tears ""96 Tears"" is a song recorded by the American garage rock band ? and the Mysterians in 1966 (""see"" 1966 in music). In October of that year, it was number one on the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 in the U.S. and on the ""RPM"" 100 in Canada. ""Billboard"" ranked the record as the number five song for 1966. It is ranked number 213 on the ""Rolling Stone"" list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. On November 11, 1966, the single was certified as gold by the RIAA. The song was written by Question Mark (Rudy Martinez) in"
"Cherry, Cherry ""Cherry, Cherry"" is a song written, composed, and recorded in February - March 1966 by American musician Neil Diamond. The song (originally intended as a demo) was arranged by Artie Butler and produced by Jeff Barry and Ellie Greenwich. It was issued as a 45 single in 1966 and became Diamond's first big hit, reaching #6 on both the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart, in October 1966, and the ""Cash Box"" chart. Ellie Greenwich came up with the chorus and can be heard as the prominent background voice, accompanied by Jeff Barry. Neil Diamond has stated that the song"
"Blue and Yellow ""Blue and Yellow"" is the fourth single from The Used's self-titled debut album ""The Used"". ""Blue and Yellow"" was released to radio on May 20, 2003. This song is about the friendship between Bert and Quinn. About the song, lead singer Bert McCracken said: ""[Blue and Yellow is] really close to my heart. I wrote it about Quinn—our relationship and how close we are. The first day we met was special; he's just one of those people that you meet in your life that's special. You know you're going to be with this person forever and you"
"debut album was titled ""Raising The Roof"" in 1966 followed by their most popular record, 1967's ""Mellow Yellow"", which reached #173 on the ""Billboard"" 200. Third album, ""Ducky"" (1967) was the last to feature the original band. While at Chess, Brown was not only signed to the label but also worked as a staff musician playing and arranging for a wealth of other artists and gaining great insight and expertise into other styles of music. After the death of Leonard Chess in 1969, Brown decided not to re-sign with the label and during the 1970s, pursued a solo career as"
"The Yellow and The Green The Yellow and The Green is the Alma Mater of North Dakota State University in Fargo, North Dakota. ""The Yellow and The Green"" was written by a young North Dakota Agricultural College (now known as North Dakota State University) faculty member, Archibald E. Minard, in 1907. Minard later took the lyrics to Dr. Clarence S. Putnam, a fellow NDAC professor, to develop a musical setting for the lyrics. Minard hoped that the song would become the official song of the state of North Dakota. Instead, that designation went to another song for which Putnam composed"
"Romeo and Juliet (Dire Straits song) ""Romeo and Juliet"" is a song by the British rock band Dire Straits, written by frontman Mark Knopfler. It first appeared on the 1980 album ""Making Movies"" and was released as a single in 1981. Reviewer Dan Bolles has called the song a ""classic"". The song subsequently appeared on the Dire Straits live albums """" and ""On the Night"", and later on Knopfler's live duet album with Emmylou Harris, ""Real Live Roadrunning"" (though Harris does not perform on the track). The track was also featured on the greatest hits albums ""Money for Nothing"", """","
"The Yellow and Blue The Yellow and Blue is the alma mater of the University of Michigan, written by Charles M. Gayley. Gayley composed the lyrics in 1886 while he was a professor of English and Latin at UM. He was motivated to write the song in hopes of winning a $20 prize from the student editors of the yearbook (The Palladium). As he wrote the lyrics, Gayley was thinking of the school colors, ""azure blue and maize."" Ultimately the song became a paean to the color and light of late summer in Michigan: the yellow grain in the fields,"
"and co-wrote eight of the eleven tracks. ""The Yellow Balloon"" album has long been considered a sunshine pop classic, although ""Yellow Balloon"" is the only song that charted. Yellow Balloon ""Yellow Balloon"" was a Top 30 hit single in the ""Billboard"" Hot 100 by The Yellow Balloon, included on the group's 1967 self-titled album. It was classified as being in the sunshine pop genre. In late 1966, when Dean Torrence of Jan & Dean needed some songs for a new album, he enlisted the help of Gary Zekley, a talented Los Angeles singer/songwriter/producer Torrence had worked with previously. One of"
"Bodak Yellow ""Bodak Yellow"" (alternatively titled ""Bodak Yellow (Money Moves)"") is a song written and recorded by American rapper Cardi B. It was released on June 16, 2017, by Atlantic Records as her debut single on a major record label and the lead single from her debut studio album ""Invasion of Privacy"" (2018). The song was influenced by and interpolates the flow of American rapper Kodak Black’s song “No Flockin”. It topped the US ""Billboard"" Hot 100 chart for three consecutive weeks, making her the fifth female rapper to ever lead the chart, and the second to do so with"
"Pepperland Laid Waste ""Pepperland Laid Waste"" is an instrumental orchestral piece conducted and composed by The Beatles' producer George Martin for the ""Yellow Submarine"" film and was the sixth track on the orchestral Side 2 of the film's soundtrack album by The Beatles, released in 1969. The song was recorded by a 41-piece orchestra at Abbey Road Studios on 22–23 October 1968. In the film, Pepperland is a place inhabited by music lovers and beauty. The film's antagonists, the Blue Meanies, hate music and beauty. They attack Pepperland, destroying the land's beauty along with freezing the inhabitants. Martin's musical illustration"
"Yellow Days ""La mentira (Se te olvida)"", known in English as ""Yellow Days"", is a bolero written by Álvaro Carrillo around 1965. Alan Bernstein wrote the song's lyrics in English. It has become a Latin and jazz standard, having been featured as the theme song of films and ""telenovelas"", as well as being covered by artists such as Frank Sinatra, who sang it to an arrangement by Billy May. It appeared on the ""Francis A. & Edward K."" (Sinatra and Duke Ellington) album on Reprise. It has also been covered by Jerry Vale, the Sandpipers, Anita Bryant, Johnny Mann, Lenny"
"hometown of Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, and throughout western Canada, before busking in the streets and nightclubs of Toronto, Ontario. In 1965, she moved to the United States and began touring. Some of her original songs (""Urge for Going"", ""Chelsea Morning"", ""Both Sides, Now"", ""The Circle Game"") were covered by other folk singers, allowing her to sign with Reprise Records and record her debut album, ""Song to a Seagull"", in 1968. Settling in Southern California, Mitchell, with popular songs like ""Big Yellow Taxi"" and ""Woodstock"", helped define an era and a generation. Her 1971 album ""Blue"" is often cited as one of"
"band to producers Ed Cobb and Ray Harris. The band flew to Los Angeles and entered the recording studio; as a warm-up to show Cobb their capabilities, they quickly recorded down tracks for ""Come On,"" a Chuck Berry song that had also been the first track recorded by the Rolling Stones (the latter of whom the band was frequently compared to). Cobb introduced the band to a song he had written a week earlier named ""Sweet Young Thing"". Released in December 1966 by Tower Records, the B-side featured the group's cover of Bob Dylan's ""It's All Over Now, Baby Blue"","
"Julian Lennon John Charles Julian Lennon (born 8 April 1963) is an English musician and photographer. Lennon is the son of John Lennon and his first wife, Cynthia. Lennon was named after his paternal grandmother, Julia Lennon. He was the direct inspiration for three Beatles' songs: ""Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"" (1967), ""Hey Jude"" (1968) and ""Good Night"" (1968). Lennon founded the White Feather Foundation charity. Julian Lennon was born on 8 April 1963 in Liverpool. The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, was his godfather. Lennon inspired one of his father's most famous songs, ""Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds,"""
"wedding to Nancy Shevell. Julian Lennon John Charles Julian Lennon (born 8 April 1963) is an English musician and photographer. Lennon is the son of John Lennon and his first wife, Cynthia. Lennon was named after his paternal grandmother, Julia Lennon. He was the direct inspiration for three Beatles' songs: ""Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"" (1967), ""Hey Jude"" (1968) and ""Good Night"" (1968). Lennon founded the White Feather Foundation charity. Julian Lennon was born on 8 April 1963 in Liverpool. The Beatles' manager, Brian Epstein, was his godfather. Lennon inspired one of his father's most famous songs, ""Lucy in"